Who are the top turkeys in tech? Cringely serves up a few deserving candidates. Please pass the gravy

It's time again for that beloved holiday tradition in Cringeville known as the Golden Gobblers. These awards were created to honor individuals in the world of technology whose giblets we'd be happy to see roasted and served on a platter.

Last year the Golden Gobblers honored naughty Twitter user and now ex-Congressman Anthony Weiner, doomsday evangelist Harold Camping, and famous bald guy Steve Ballmer, among others. This year's 10 winners are all equally deserving to get stuffed. Here they are.

The now former senior VP for Apple lost his way -- and his job -- when he failed to apologize for the Mapocalypse, the spectacular failure of Apple's new maps app for iOS 6. Apparently Forstall really did intend to put the Brooklyn Bridge in the middle of the East River and for the app's 3D flyovers to look like MC Escher drawings. They call these devices "magical" for a reason.

The man who claims to own half of Facebook is now facing federal charges after allegedly faking a contract between himself and then-college-student Mark Zuckerberg. The Web designer from upstate New York laid claim to Facebook in July 2010 after producing a contract signed by Zucky that allegedly gave him half ownership in a project called "PageBook."

When the feds impounded Ceglia's computer, they found a copy of a 2003 contract between him and Zuckerberg, but no mention of PageBook. Now Ceglia is facing up to 40 years in the pokey for mail and wire fraud.

The good news: If convicted, he's sure to add lots of new friends in prison.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers earns a special collective Golden Gobbler this year. Not only did ICANN open the floodgates to possibly hundreds of new top-level domains (sowing the seeds of massive future confusion while making a tidy $350 million on application fees), it introduced, then abandoned a series of laughably inept schemes to ensure that all 1,930 applications would be considered fairly. My favorite: the digital archery contest, which measured how accurately applicants logged into ICANN's website at a predetermined time, give or take a few milliseconds.

The VP of Government Affairs for the Direct Marketing Association earns her spot in our list of Butterballs for suggesting that future Do Not Track technology, which is intended to keep advertisers from tracking our movements across the Web, be tweaked to allow advertisers to track our movements across the Web. That's a bit like hiring McDonald's to cater the National Vegan Convention.

The FBI agent who launched the investigation into Paula Broadwell's email accounts did it as a favor for gal pal and wannabe-Kardashian Jill Kelley. He then leaked news of the probe to two right-wing congressmen, igniting one of the biggest scandals in CIA history and bringing down its director, General David Petraeus. Somewhere along the line he generously shared a pic of his pecs with Kelley, launching an FBI investigation into his own conduct.

Hey Fred: Next time someone asks you to eviscerate someone's privacy over a tawdry but otherwise legal affair, please do us a favor and keep your shirt on.

The Romney campaign's top-secret get-out-the-vote app was a spectacular success -- for President Obama. On Election Day, Orca quickly found itself beached, leaving thousands of GOP volunteers stranded with little or nothing to do. The problem? A massive project failure on all levels, from development and testing to implementation and deployment.

Inman eventually won, the charities got the money, and Carreon backed off, but only after he'd posted a video about Inman called Psycho Santa on his Rapeutation.com website. Hey, Chuck: Just because you're named Carreon doesn't mean you have to act like a vulture.

The former VP at SAP's Palo Alto labs came up with an ingenious way to make extra cash: Go to Target, pick up overpriced Legos sets (like the $140 Star Wars Millennium Falcon), slap a cheaper bar code on them, check out, and pocket the difference by reselling the kits on eBay. Langenbach did this 2,000-plus times, according to law enforcement officials. He was captured in the act on surveillance tape and found with bogus bar code printouts in his car and hundreds of Lego kits in his $2 million home.